Bill Clinton actually said...

we cannot afford to let our children down when they need us the most.

more than half the students in our Nation's city schools are failing to master the basics in reading, math, and science

How do we deal with the fact that the old structures that people used as magnets for identity in the world are breaking down?

At that moment in our history, John Quincy Adams... was the embodiment of the Nation's opposition to slavery.